AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei . Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90.
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei . Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. Super-chancery 2° (309 x 213mm). Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v, publisher's device at end. (Light spotting, occasional worming.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, blue edges, later manuscript title on spine (a little rubbed and stained). Provenance : Joannes Zurlus, April 1528 and Ch[ristophorus] Stephanus, 1537 (deleted inscription on A2r) -- newspaper cutting from Il Corriere del Mattino dated 1879 reporting book news (front pastedown) -- André Himpe ( De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 13). The full-page woodcut is the first known work attributable to the Master of Haintz-Narr, considered by Winkler to be the best woodcut artist in Basel before Dürer (F. Winkler, Dürer , 1951). HC 2065; GW 2889; BMC V 437; BSB-Ink A-862; Bod-inc A-531; Goff A-1245.
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei . Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90.
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei . Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. Super-chancery 2° (309 x 213mm). Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v, publisher's device at end. (Light spotting, occasional worming.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, blue edges, later manuscript title on spine (a little rubbed and stained). Provenance : Joannes Zurlus, April 1528 and Ch[ristophorus] Stephanus, 1537 (deleted inscription on A2r) -- newspaper cutting from Il Corriere del Mattino dated 1879 reporting book news (front pastedown) -- André Himpe ( De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 13). The full-page woodcut is the first known work attributable to the Master of Haintz-Narr, considered by Winkler to be the best woodcut artist in Basel before Dürer (F. Winkler, Dürer , 1951). HC 2065; GW 2889; BMC V 437; BSB-Ink A-862; Bod-inc A-531; Goff A-1245.
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